Advocacy Organisations

These organisations offer individual advocacy and support to people with a disability. If you have any problems with disability services, health services or government agencies, these are the services that can assist.

DARU is unique in Australia as a dedicated resource unit funded to work with disability advocacy organisations to promote and protect the rights of people with disability. We develop and distribute resources and provide training opportunities to keep disability advocates informed and up-to-date about issues affecting people with disability in Victoria.

Rights Information and Advocacy Centre (RIAC) is a not-for-profit organisation that builds the capacity and wellbeing of individuals, families, carers and communities through advocacy and support services, with offices in many regional centers around Victoria.

Southern Disability Advocacy advocates for the rights and interests of individuals with a disability, working with residents of the Cities of Port Phillip, Stonnington, Bayside, Glen Eira, Kingston & Frankston, & the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

Southwest Advocacy Association (SWAA) is an independent, not-for-profit, community organisation that has provided individual and systemic advocacy for people with all types of disabilities throughout south west Victoria since 1993.

Next Steps

If attempts to resolve your situation have failed, complaints can brought to the DSC. The DSC is an independent oversight body resolving complaints and promoting the right of people with a disability to be free from abuse.

Disability Services Commissioner (DSC) works with people with a disability to resolve complaints about disability service providers, and we work with disability service providers to improve outcomes for people with a disability.